I am old. I have been working with Unix for a long time. In fact, at the end of a recent job interview one of the participants said to me "It's interesting, you have more years of Unix experience than ...

Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

Anyone with a significant interest in Linux distributions knows about Slackware Linux, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about what it is, where it came from, how it has survived (and ...

If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...

Being first doesn’t guarantee success in the technology industry. Remember the Netscape browser? Still, it can have its advantages, such as a different or unique approach to things. Such is the case ...

Absolute Linux is a distro that raises the question: Is it really worth the bother? Any version of this Slackware-based Linux OS is just that — a really big bother — unless you love Unix-like systems ...

Slackel is a Linux distro a step away from the mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line. It is based on Slackware and Salix. Users already familiar with that lineage are more inclined to like Slackel.

Gentoo and Arch Linux require advanced technical skills and demand manual installations and updates. Slackware lacks automation and graphical tools for beginners ...

Hi,<P>I was wondering if you guys know of any good Slackware resources for newbies? Particularly any websites, or any books that you would recommend. I've been hearing that for Slackware, you get to ...

I have a Pentium Pro 200 w/ 64mb of RAM that i need to setup as an ip masq machine. My distro of choice is slackware linux. However i have a problem that absolutely puzzles me. I can install slack 7.1 ...